What is alive is the Mind, Whole Mind or call it Life. When
the mind exists, the world exists. When the world doesn’t exist, if at all, its
the mind that would have to confirm it. So “no world” is still a mind-full
place. No-Mind is an impossibility. As One can’t talk about it. So, Mind as the knowing capacity is the essence of the World, or simply we say Mind
is the world.
All knowing, is a function that we call Mind. Visual
knowing, audible knowing, emotional knowing and conceptual knowing. And all of
the content of knowing, which we call objects are -shapes, sounds or thoughts
which is nothing but the knowing of them, and not other than Mind. The real insight is, to
begin to recognize that everything perceivable and conceivable is content or
form and is function of the One Whole Mind . That is the only mind that ever
is. Its simply a capacity or potential. Its alive and is the only thing
that knows life.
Mind is THAT which alone IS. It is life itself. Life or
Mind, two ways of pointing to the one Reality. Its the only thing that can know
presence, or absence, movement or change (change as such, is only a series of
presence’s and absence’s)
As Mind is that which knows both presence and absence, it is
logical to conclude that Mind itself must be beyond all that changes, standing
as the changeless.
The content may change. It can become zero. But such a zero
is only known by something that IS and that something, which is really No-Thing
is Mind.
The mind is also a self
knowing power. There is nothing outside of Mind that can know mind. Its
self knowing. It alone makes the world feel real. It alone does itself.
Mind is ever fresh and new with content . Mind as knowledge projects itself as the apparent reality to this
seeming world, and thus causes its own purely subjective and undifferentiated
existence to be experienced as a solid world of objects. Mind is the knowing Subject and also the content, its
own object. Knowing is a process and
so Mind is a process of knowing. Its
not a limited faculty. Its a potential
that behaves as a process.
Mind as such, is beyond presence and absence and so cannot
exist as something either present or absent.
Attention is an extended faculty of mind. This mechanism, is
like an instrument used for processing to memory. Memory is thus an aspect of mind. When
attention is focused on a particular aspect, it activates registration to
memory. When attention is withdrawn, like in a dream, or some spaces in the
waking state, the event just passes off as an experience that doesn’t register
to memory. As if the event in time was absent or never existed, as a 'fact'. Like for example, you don’t remember how you drove and reached
office, because the attention was on thoughts, rather than the
driving zone. However it is made up in imagination and rendered to memory to complete the event as a 'fact'.
So mind is a perceiving tool or the perceiving capacity, and part of the perception gets registered to memory, as a story in
time. In order to register to memory, like in any computer, the events have to
be stored ‘as’ this or that. Like a 'save as' file. Even though 'this' and 'that' may just be concepts that are not facts, they are a
temporary file name, by which, events are registered to memory. To register an
event, an aspect of time and space as reference points need to be co-ordinated.
So all events are registered, as if, they took place in some space and in some
zone of time. But space and time as attributes of events, that help recall
events. After a while they seem real on their own accord.
Thoughts are conceptual knowing of events that can project
itself into possibilities of unfolding into associated thoughts leading as if to planned events. So an event of
the past, can be utilised to link up an event in future to relate to the past.
So imagination of future is a bundle of possibilities from zero to 100 about an
unfolding, relating to the past. This makes future to be tied up with the past,
as if a continuation of the same event. But change is an hallucination, especially when the 'frame' of 'now' does itself, to appear new, all the while, and the uses the old to evolve as the new.
Self consciousness, or knowing oneself as an individual
entity, is a product or a by-product of thinking. It helps maintain memory about
events associated with such a ‘me’more simply. Continuous use of the ‘me’ to help register
events to memory, makes life easy for living in the future is a tried and
tested pattern. This idea is taught by elders and all around, so that all humans,
behave in a like manner. Thus the ‘me’ sense is developed in all, as a
recognition of oneself as a separate entity. This is only for the ease of
living life in a social manner. However it has its side effects in the belief
that such a ‘me’ has free will and choice and corrupts the thinking into
believing that all ‘me’s are separate and must be dealt with for ‘one’s own
living with more pleasurable and less painful way. Like making a secure and predictable living. However such a 'me' is part of the hallucination.
The game of life picks up in this way, until life spreads
itself in multiplicity to an extent that it gets lost in it, and believes that
the pretence is a the reality, including the basis of time and space, used for better projection of sensations, as if additional realities. Its a way of putting it so.
Because ‘we’ are life pretending to be separate, even though not, as an
experience that unfolds over and over.
The 'universe' of sensation is simply a 'knowing' as if 'of content' to knowing, making feel
content to knowing is apart from knowing of content and this makes feel a dance
of reality, even though its simply a product of simple knowing process. All content knowing
is knowing by a knowing and such process that knowing is symbolised as
MIND and forms a basis of creation, taking place as if ‘Reality’in real space and time. So reality is, a game in knowing, even though a
psychic happening, a dream happening, having all sensations as an aspect of
knowing, to make feel a real world. However, beyond this space and this time, or better, 'behind' is a real spaceless space and real timeless time, forming the process aspects of knowing, behaving magically as time and space extended in itself.
How to get past this ignorance? Just know that without you,
there is no experience of the world, and that whatever that ‘you’ is and
whatever ‘world’ ( what is happening ) is, are just two names for one happening. 'You' is this 'knowing' or Mind, and is also 'the world' as its expression of Being or as content called 'Being'. Knowing is Being
and both are one and Both ‘is’ are reality that can be. Mountains are simply the 'knowing' of it, as an experience a Mountain, even though it feels more real that simply 'a knowing' that we call the 'experience' of a mountain.
